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Anheuser-Busch hires ex-GOP aides to lobby as Bud Light's Dylan Mulvaney controversy drags on
Fox Business ^ | 4/28/23 | Breck Dumas

Posted on 04/28/2023 3:55:20 PM PDT by CFW

Anheuser-Busch has taken its damage-control campaign to Capitol Hill, and one conservative group is warning the GOP not to take the bait.

The beer giant, which is owned by Belgium-based brewing conglomerate InBev, has hired a lobbying team of former Republican Senate staffers to woo lawmakers as it seeks to repair Bud Light's image among conservatives following backlash over the brand's partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

Disclosures show weeks ago A-B secured lobbying firm Origin Advocacy, LLC, to represent the company on "general policy regarding the alcohol-beverage industry." The lobbyists handling the account are Origin founder Sean McClean and Origin partner Emily Lynch, both veteran GOP aides.

McClean is a former legislative director for Sen. Ted Cruz (R, Texas) and White house liaison for the Commerce Department under President Trump, and was previously legislative director to now-Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R, Tenn.) when she served in the House.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: advertising; donate2freerepublic; gop; mulvaney; tightwad; wokeab
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Oh great. [sigh] Every GOP representative is going to be seen casually drinking a Bud Light. It will now be the preferred drink at every GOP meeting as the new GOP "influencers" convince their old buddies that it is the "right thing to do". Remember, they will tell them, A/B donates mainly to the GOP so they should help A/B out of this jam they somehow found themselves in.
1 posted on 04/28/2023 3:55:20 PM PDT by CFW
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BARF Alert!


2 posted on 04/28/2023 3:58:22 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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Are they asking government to dictate over the people’s choices of product?


3 posted on 04/28/2023 3:59:06 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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Congressional aides should have a lifetime ban on lobbying.

They should not be able to profit by being influence peddlers after their public service.


4 posted on 04/28/2023 4:02:15 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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So AB InBev has hired lobbyists. What the hell does government and our tax dollars have to do with a woke trans pimping piss water? To hell with AB. Now, I really want them to fail. Not a single dime of tax dollars or any special treatment by government. Note: Republican scum bags signed up to help AB. Screw them.


5 posted on 04/28/2023 4:03:13 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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They’ll ban imports?


6 posted on 04/28/2023 4:05:40 PM PDT by I got the rope
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FIRE DYLAN, you dumbasses! AND APOLOGIZE!


7 posted on 04/28/2023 4:06:01 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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WTH? Is McCarthy and GOP going to pass a bill that makes a law you have to drink Bud Light.


8 posted on 04/28/2023 4:06:04 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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Remove these cans from the shelves, fire the trans, apologize. What are they waiting for?


9 posted on 04/28/2023 4:10:25 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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What has lobbying got to do with Budweiser screwing up with their market? Do they expect the Federal government to mandate their market that abandoned them pick up a six pack of Bud Light at the 7-11?


10 posted on 04/28/2023 4:13:40 PM PDT by chuckee ( )
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Let me guess, Frank Luntz. Yipee.


11 posted on 04/28/2023 4:14:51 PM PDT by BobL
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TRANSactions have consequences . Suck it AB.


12 posted on 04/28/2023 4:16:58 PM PDT by Right Brother
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Anheuser Busch would be well advised to lay low for six months, take their hit over the summer months, and perhaps abandon Bud Light. They could come back in 2024 with another product, maybe Michelob Light, to appeal to the former Bud Light demographic.

Remember that Donald Trump, Jr., got a lot of negative feedback after criticizing the Bud Light boycott. Republican congressmen and Senators would suffer similar hostile reactions if they visibly support the beer.

13 posted on 04/28/2023 4:17:28 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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cause they just won’t say WE’RE SORRY!!!


14 posted on 04/28/2023 4:20:44 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Anheuser-Busch hires ex-GOP aides to lobby as Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney controversy drags on.
= = = =

Unintended double entendre?


15 posted on 04/28/2023 4:21:10 PM PDT by pa_dweller (Let's all go out for ice cream.)
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I personally hate Bud light so it is kind of moot in my case.
But, if the boycott worked and Bud will change, then we should be starting to boycott somebody else!
It is great to win something, but then, when they apologize and change their ways, we should at some point accept it!


16 posted on 04/28/2023 4:21:16 PM PDT by AZJeep
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A/B donates mainly to the GOP so they should help A/B out of this jam they somehow found themselves in.

Oh, well if they give the GOP money, then I guess we should degrade ourselves with their perversion. That’s the literal definition of a whore.


17 posted on 04/28/2023 4:31:41 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..Stupid. Completely stupid.)
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Bud will become a clear marker to where they are. Ask the “influencers”, what was your price?
The best woman for the job is a Man. -prog cult


18 posted on 04/28/2023 4:32:37 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness ; Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementa)
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The ONLY route out for AB is to fire Mulvaney, the female veep and her team and publicly and firmly reject all homosexuality, trannies and woke.

Anything else is fake.


19 posted on 04/28/2023 4:33:12 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..Stupid. Completely stupid.)
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Not enough. They have to fire that veep and her team and reject ALL pride month sponsorships. Otherwise they are woke fag beer.


20 posted on 04/28/2023 4:34:19 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..Stupid. Completely stupid.)
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